On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project

The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

Illustrated notes on the concept of 'Evergreen notes' and how to write them

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web

A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning

Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave

Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move

Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows